NASA's NEID: The state-of-art instrument to find new worlds

By Staff Reporter | Oct 06, 2016 08:05 AM EDT

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NASA, now has a team to build a new instrument that will recognize or to encounter new planets outside Solar System, these planets are called 'exoplanets. This cutting-edge instrument works by calculating mini "wobbling" of stars. 

The instrument is called NEID (noo-od). short for NN-EXPLORE "Exoplanet Investigations with Doppler Spectroscopy. It will measure the minimal back-and-forth movement or wobbling of a star due by the gravitational tug of a planet in orbit around it. The movement indicates that there is a planet revolving the star, and the extent of the movement reveals how large the planet is.

NN-EXPLORE or Exoplanet Observational Research program is the highlight of a new tie-up with the National Science Foundation (NSF) called NASA-NSF. NEID is the most important part of NASA's partnership with NSF.

This state-of-art instrument will allow the community to find the new worlds using WIYN Telescope it stands for Wisconsin, Indiana University, Yale University and NOAO (National Optical Astronomy Observatories) 

According to NASA using this instrument, astronomers and scientist will allow it to explore and study new planets and planetary system, also to follow-up NASA's planet-hunting mission. 
The name NEID is from the word meaning "to discover/visualize" in the native language of  Tohono O' Odham where  Kitt Peak Nation Observatory is located. 

NASA and NSF set down this partnership last February 2015 so they can fully take advantage of the share of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) and Kitt Peak telescope. 
They aim to provide science community with the apparatus and ways to perform ground-base observation that advances exoplanet science and back up the observations of NASA Space Astrophysics missions. 

A news from Wired, astronomers said that they have found a new exoplanet named Proxima b, and that there are 44 potentially livable exoplanets have been spotted. 

Because of this goal, now planet earth and all humankind will be looking forward to a new planet for us to inhabit.  

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